606 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. yol. 42. 



LUTJANUS CHIRTAHi (Cuvier and Valenciennes). 



Five young specimens, 80 to 160 mm. long. Batavia. 



LUTJANUS VITTA2 (Quoy and Gaimard). • 



One specimen, 170 mm. long. Batavia. 



LUTJANUS RUSSELLI3 (Bleeker), 



Two specimens, each about 180 mm. long. Batavia. 



LUTJANUS FULVIFLAMMA* (Forskal). 



Two specimens, 250 and 300 mm. long. Batavia. 



The most salient difference between these specimens and the de- 

 scription and figure is in the distal edge of the anal fin, which is de- 

 scribed as being curved. Our specimens show it almost perfectly 

 straight. 



CJESIO CCERULAUREUS » Lacepede. 



One specimen, 170 mm. long. Batavia. 



C-ESIO LUNARIS8 (Ehrenberg). 



Six specimens, 130 to 220 mm. long. Batavia. 



AU these specimens have a narrow band or a single row of teeth 

 on the palatine or pterygoid. This patch is so narrow that it can not 

 be found by the use of an ordinary dissecting needle, but is detected 

 at once by the use of an edge as a scraper in the roof of the mouth. 



SPARUS DATNIA' (Hamilton-Buchanan). 



One specimen, 110 mm. long. Pelaboean Ratoe. 

 The native name is given as ''Sing-rung." 



GERRES MACRACANTHUSs Bleeker. 



Two specimens, 90 and 110 mm. long. Batavia. 



OTOLITHUS ARGENTEUS3 Kuhl and van Hasselt. 



Five specimens, 100 to 260 mm. long. Batavia. 



PSEUDOSCIiENA AN^ffiUSi" (Bloch). 



Five specimens, 65 to 150 mm. long. Batavia. 



PSEUDOSCI^NA PLAGIOSTOMA" (Bleeker). 



Two specimens, each 120 mm. long. Batavia. 



UMBRINA MACROPTERA12 Bleeker. 



Two specimens, 140 and 150 mm. long. The dorsal rays are 20-24. 

 Pelaboean Ratoe. 



1 Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., vol. 8, p. 58, pi. 301, fig. 1. 



2 Idem, vol. 8, p. 51, pi. 340, fig. 5. 



3 Idem, vol. 8, p. 71, pi. 300, fig. 2. 



4 Idem, vol. 8, p. 65, pi. 344, fig. 3. 

 6 Idem, vol. 8, p. 39, pi. 347, fig. 4. 

 6 Idem, vol. 8, p. 37, pi. 334, fig. 4. 



J Idem, vol. 8, p. 109, pi. 361, fig. 4. 



8 Idem, vol. 8, p. 125, pi. 362, fig. 1. 



9 Idem, vol. 9, pi. 385, fig. 5, and Day, Fishes of India, p. 197, pi. 45, fig. 3. 



10 Idem, vol. 9, pi. 385, fig. 2, and Day (Scixna anxus), Fishes of India, p. 189, pi. 45, fig. 5. 

 " Idem, vol. 9, pi. 385, fig. 1. 



12 Day, Fishes of India, p. 182, and figured by Bleeker as Scixna macroptera, Atlas Ichth., vol. 9, pi. 384. 

 fig. 5. 



